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There are eight planets. Their distances in mean millions of kilometers are...

Mercury 57.9

Venus 108.2

Earth 149.6

Mars 227.9

Jupiter 778.3

Saturn 1,427

Uranus 2,869.6

Neptune 4,496.6

Source "The Solar System", Roman Smoluchowkski, Scientific American Library, 1983, Page 164

Pluto is not included because, in 2006, the International Astronomical Union ruled that Pluto was a dwarf planet.

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